In the neighboring Tomales Bay, the European green crab alone has caused a clam harvesting decline of up to 40%. On the East ...

When a mother sea otter needs to hunt for food, she carefully wraps her pup in a protective blanket of seagrass or kelp to keep them from drifting away with the ocean current. Fortunately ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

What do otters eat? Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat. What type of meat depends on what's ...

Sea otter mamas are parenting on hard mode. They give birth in the water, to blind, helpless infants who have to be carried ...

Because of their high metabolic rates, sea otters are especially vulnerable to disturbances that can increase their energy ...

Russian hunters pursued Alaskan sea otters for their luxuriant pelts — the ... diminished Alaska Natives’ subsistence foods. Although otters are protected from hunting under the Marine Mammal ...

After being absent for more than a century, an effort to repopulate the Oregon Coast with sea otters is in the works. Oregon non-profit The Elakha Alliance was founded in 2018 by Tribal leaders and ...

IF YOU are a fan of sea otters, you may have observed ... a rock in the middle of the ocean? Does the otter dive down to the seafloor to hunt for a suitable stone whenever it wants to have ...

Disaster could follow. Africa's vultures are disappearing. Disaster could follow. Wolves hunt sea otters and seals, a startling find Wolves hunt sea otters and seals, a startling find Sea otters ...